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Ray

Interesting rumours swirling around on twitter over the hashtag #motherifallscandals
Apparently a story of sexual shenanigans is being hawked around the usual suspects
My pick, Bomber is a National party plant, his tweed jacket with leather patches was his downfall.
What, “Bomber is Blazer” highly unlikely but an interesting theory.
We live in interesting times eh.

PDB

PDB

Hardly a ‘big’ scandal from what is shown. Comparing Peters to Turei appears on the surface disingenuous unless Peters deliberately lied to the authorities back in 2010, I presume regarding his living arrangements which would affect the amount he would receive in pension money? Not a lot to go on so far.

Blazer

sorethumb

Axios national politics reporter Jonathan Swan suggested in an appearance on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports this week that West Wing Democrats and globalists whose allies have never been able to handle Breitbart News’ relentless “40 minutes of hell” of pressure for causes important to working-class Americans of all backgrounds were frustrated that Trump was reading articles from Breitbart News. A New York Times cover story acknowledged that there is “no real precursor for Breitbart” of an outlet that has so quickly emerged to “dominate the political conversation in a pivotal election” like Breitbart News did during the 2016 election cycle.http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/26/reports-west-wing-dems-blocking-trump-from-reading-breitbart-news/
Essentially Brietbart would be saying all that gets banned on left and right (vested interest) blogs etc.

Conspiratoor

PDB

If this happens to be the same as the big story Tim Murphy said he would be breaking tomorrow will Nicky Hager write a follow up to dirty politics about a left-wing blogger working hand in hand with the MSM?

PDB

Gezza

“Ordinary hard working New Zealanders” were talking to Andy for months & months on end – so remember that! Given that he kept sinking in the polls I concluded it must be the same ones & they were members of the Labour Party & they were travelling in the same bus, car or van with him.

But the point is – Bill must be talking to unusual hard working New Zealanders, because the three ordinary ones appear to have only spoken to Andy.

High Flying Duck

No, they aren’t charities – they are businesses and business people. The types of things that bring employment and economic growth.
& I meant as a group. But Thiel donated $1,000,000 to the Christchurch rebuild, so still fits in nicely.
Rio Tinto: The Southland smelter employs more than 700 staff but its loss would impact on more than 3000 jobs in the region.
Sky City didn’t cost the taxapayer a cent…
Warner Bros is a depends on who you talk to scenario, but they didn’t get grants, they got Rebates, so they cost nothing, just paid less. And the NZ film industry (not $3b +per annum) + tourism (where 18% or respondents site The Hobbit as the reason for coming) is going gangbusters since the deal so I’ll take that over not having the films shot here any day.

Blazer

take $1mil off the $20 +mil Thiel pocketed from the Joyce deal and we know who the winner is.Did $30mil really make a difference to Rio Tinto hanging in at Tiwai?SKC…monopoly ,the convention centre will cost taxpayers millions every year,not to mention the cost of ‘giving away’ the TVNZ land and deploying staff.Rebates to film makers is a race to the bottom.As a one off deal maybe,but its….permanent.The ‘jobs’ argument is well worn.Slash and burn jobs is the M.O of corporates and the worst is yet…to come.Corporations are not altruists,I don’t need to tell you this.

PDB

*Ardern didn’t want to work for Tony Blair so applied for a job to work for him.
*Ardern had concerns at the time about Blair being a war criminal way before he was being accused of being one.
*Despite having moral concerns over working for Blair she did so because she wanted to go overseas, needed the money and wanted to have a good time.
*Ardern was then disappointed in not meeting the guy she had moral concerns about and initially disappointed in finding herself doing only a very small role in someone’s office she had moral concerns about.
* Ardern then went to a Tony Blair event in New Zealand in 2011 (not as a protestor).